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Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis Renewed
scifi451 writes "Both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis have been renewed for another season, 9th and 2nd respectively. All of the key cast members are coming back for Atlantis, where as SG-1 stars are in negotiations, with Amanda Tapping expecting a baby in March right as filming begins. Also Richard Dean Anderson might look for an even further reduced role in the show.
More news can be found here: Gateworld & Scifi-Wire"
It's Sci-Fi's most successful original series. Atlantis' debut drew over 4 million fans.
There's an outtake from the first season where O'Neill and Carter are trapped in the Antarctic with a broken Stargate which features Carter going into a rant about being trapped with MacGyver and how he should be able to make a working gate.
In the pilot, Carter also describes how they made their own dialing device and says they "MacGyvered it."
Aye, the guy is from Scotland but has been working in America for ages, and I can tell you that although the accent sometimes seems strained, it's a nice familiar touch for us Scottish geeks.
I am one of many. My idea is not unique, nor do I expect my voice alone to sway you. I speak in a chorus of opinion.
Dont get me wrong, i dont expect stars and accolades out of a series which barely discerns itself from the likes of zena/hurcules/Beastmaster in some of its episodes (did these guys share their prop guys/ set designers or what?)
But for me, the most endearing part of the Stargate series has for themost part been McGyv..Richard's humorfull character. Without Dean, the show just becomes just another crappy lets fight aliens in fantasy planets with cool ancient civilizations based on old earth.
And Atlantis is pure poo, the characters are all cookie cutter type-casts to the point of stereotyping your viewer audience fan-service, maybe this is what happens when sci-fi channel does..... well just about anything.... but that show is terrible.
Stargate itself has been pretty damn good (with some notable exceptions ... ergo anyone?) and im glad to see it continue on, but atlantis is in dire need of a total abortion or a complete re-write with some more serious characters who actualy act like a military operation.
Anyone remember space above and beyond?
This is why im really happy about the Battlestar galactica series comming this new year... Gritty, realistic, and hopefully... above all else... not more episodal space opera campy bullsh*t.
--Idiots, Every single one of YOU, A flaming mass of conglomerated morons, hey wait a second, isnt that how RAID works?
Two L's .... Col. Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neil .... Col./Gen. Jack O'Neill
Kurt Russell
Richard Dean Anderson
people often confuse one guy for the other...
something O'Neill (Anderson) says in one of the episodes.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569295/
That would be Rimmer.
Insanity is the last line of defence for the master diplomat. But you have to lay the groundwork early.
Speaking of MacGyver (okay, it was inferred not spoken)... I was very pleasantly surprised to see that it will be released on DVD beginning in January!
"Truth is not decided by majority vote" consensus gentium -- Norman Geisler
And so it begins. This also explains why Brandy Ledford has been on Andromeda, and Lexa is limited to head shots.
Heute die Welt, morgen das Sonnensystem!
I hesitate a bit to divulege this on Slashdot... but here goes.
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Fans of Stargate-SG1 and Stargate Atlantis can download every episode ever made via IRC on irc.rizon.net in the channel #stargate-atlantis
There are at present over 500 users in the channel along with dozens of XDCC and other bots there waiting to serve the files to you.
Eh, I'm sure this isn't the first time an IRC channel has been
I'm a big tall mofo.
Sci Fi airs each season of Stargate in two chunks, one over the summer and the next several months later when they are done rerunning all the first chunk episodes. So the renewal has nothing to do with whether or not you will see the sequel episode to The Storm.
"I basically like the show, but I get annoyed by the fact that every body they encounter speaks English. On Star Trek they explain this through their universal translator comm badges or something, but I've never heard of the explanation for SG1. It's like every mission they have to painfully explain that they come from "Earth", but otherwise they have the same names for everything. it's stupid."
The MGM FAQ explains this. They don't want to spend 15 minutes every episode working through the language barrier, so they ignore it unless its particularly important to that episodes plot. Personally, I'd rather it be ignored than have some sort of universal translator that never has its basis of operation explained.
"Also, if the gate is there and they've made all sorts of contact with other worlds, why aren't there more aliens wandering around the SGC? and why arent there more earth people permanently relocating to other worlds like Daniel tried to do when he fell in love in the original movie? Wouldn't it be a better show if there was regular travel between different people in different places? How about establishing regular trade between worlds? Stuff like that."
Most "aliens" are aliens in the earth legal sense- they are human, just born somewhere else. Several have taken up residence on Earth. There have been very few species encountered that are obviously different, and most of them simply have no interest in simply hanging out on Earth. Others, such as the Enkarans, would suffer serious medical problems if they stay on earth more than a few days. Just because humans can survive in their environment doesn't mean they can survive in humans environment- look at Earth species for instance. Humans can survive in the tundra and in the desert. But take a tiger from the deserts of africa and throw him in northern canada, he won't last long. By the same token, a polar bear won't last terribly long in the desert. The main biological advantage of humans is adaptability... we have a body design and mental capacity that allow us to function in a much wider variety of environments than most other species. It is quite possible that this advantage would hold over other sentient species on other planets.
As for earth people staying offworld, there aren't many earth people who even know of the Stargate, much less have an opportunity to go through it and find a place they want to move to. Col Maybourne an exception...
"and I think they should resolve and kill off the ancient egyptian stuff once and for all. it's a crutch for the series, it's boring and lame at this point. the threat of the goauld should be reduced in importance and they should do more exploring. the way the series looks, it's like the goauld has a big presence in almost every other planet than earth."
The reason the Goa'uld are on almost every human planet is referenced constantly... It was the Goa'uld who transported humans to other worlds as slaves in the first place.